The PM doesn’t know me
20/08/2006
I’m watching the Prime Minister’s National Day Rally right now, but I can hardly go on. It pains my heart.
It started off fine. I think the country is small enough for this almost like an all-hands style of a State of the Union. It’s less about proposals, but more like what we’ve achieved, and what the direction for the year and the decade should be. It’s a pep-talk too, but that’s cool. Once a year, after slogging at it, some perspective, and a little pat on the back is always welcome, right.
The PM dedicated a part of his speech to address the opportunities and challenges in the digital age. First he mentions Straits Times Interactive, and Channelnewsasia. Well, ok. He’s talking about all those Green Card lottery ads, and mentions how he sees them all over ST Interactive and CNA.com. He says the newly formed Citizenship and Population Unit (CPU, wahhh so high tech!) should be using those ad units to advertise immigration lotteries or opportunities to Singapore. It’s a great idea. Just a small suggestion to the civil servant tasked to do this: you want to be advertising on websites that target users outside of Singapore, so maybe ST Interactive and CNA.com should be lower on your priority list, even though the PM mentioned it. Please spend your money on Yahoo!, because at least they have a breadth of products in a host of countries. So you can target your efforts more effectively. Advertising on ST Interactive and CNA.com won’t give you jack, honestly. But I digress.
PM Lee then mentioned MSN Messenger, Google, and Skype. After which I stopped paying attention, and had a piece of chocolate.
Damn, it hurt more than I expect, hearing people use MSN, Google and Skype as verbs. Even more so when it’s at a stage such as this.
Are we missing something – is corporate branding at an all time low? Ugh!!!!
This smarts, getting beaten, so to speak, by less. We have to so kick ass next year.
VVV
20/08/2006
Why do they call it double U
When it looks more like 2 V’s? Seems that the earliest form of the letter was really 2 Vs.
I think I need to sleep earlier in general. Because I wake up late, I feel like I’m getting less of a day, even though we sleep at about 3am. Bad, I know.
We went to Funan yesterday, not for a hot pinkDS Lite, but for a haircut. While KF got his $10 EC House cut, I raided Laser Flair and ended up with more Korean DVDs. Not the serials this time, just a couple of movies.
Pistal Opera
So last night I decided to start on my loot. Put in Pistol Opera, not Korean, it was Japanese, but I liked the chick who acts in it. She’s the tall chick in Power Office Girls, the funny Japanese serial about these women working in a department store.
Back to the movie. I don’t even need to write a Haiku for it, I can sum it up in one word: weird!
It’s like watching a David Lynch movie (without the rich cinematography). It read normally enough in the synopsis at the back. She’s a professional killer, ranked #3 in the Guild. She’s tasked to off #1, a mysterious killer called Hundred Eyes to take his place.
What follows is a weird, crazy mix of violence, strange metaphorical storytelling, and seemingly inconsequential scenes. It’s like someone who couldn’t tell a straight story wrote the script.
So I can’t tell you if it’s a good movie. I couldn’t comprehend more than half of it. I didn’t know if it was funny!
Anyway. The chick, Makiko Esumi turns 40 this year. She looks good for a 40-year old.
Weird!
